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I was a reporter and columnist for 40 years for a chain of newspapers in the suburbs of Chicago. I'm a military veteran having served in the United States Army Combat Engineers (Cpl. E-4) and a Korean War veteran with an Honorable Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States of America

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

You have to wait until the end of this video to see a young female soldier weeping as the body of Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers is returned to Dover AFB from Afghanistan. Sgt. Myers was killed last Saturday by an IED in Afghanistan. The video clip aired on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" show on MSNBC.WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/2jab4o4f2ug&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY THIS VIDEO

Conditions in Iraq are worsening. President Obama visited U.S. troops in Baghdad and again stated he has a plan to remove most of the U.S. troops from Iraq after the Iraqi elections are held later this year. In this video, you see rare footage of U.S. troops engaged in a violent combat firefight in Iraq.TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERSWATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/cdY_00N1KL8&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware -- His name was Phillip A. Myers. A staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, he was killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan on Saturday. The return of his body to the United States was filmed on Monday at Dover Air Force Base.WATCH VIDEO HERE http://www.youtube.com/v/cp9sWGxjFQ8&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

At the height of the sectarian violence that ravaged Iraq between early 2006 and mid-2007, some days found 300 Iraqis being killed. Right now, Iraq is teetering on the brink of returning to that level of bloodletting.